FreshBooks is a leading cloud-based SaaS accounting software platform built for small business owners and consistently ranks #1 easiest to use. With an emphasis on keeping things simple and stress-free wherever possible, FreshBooks makes the hard parts of running a business a little bit easier. With FreshBooks, our customers can get paid faster and spend less time on admin and paperwork, so they can focus on what they do best—growing their businesses.
At FreshBooks, we believe in human-centric connections that empower teams to do their best work. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, our team operates in clusters across North America and Europe using a variety of working environments—remote, hybrid, and in-office—all based on what’s best for the team, collaboration, and mental well-being. We are committed to creating a supportive and flexible workplace where everyone can thrive, grow, and make an impact on small business owners and accountants.
The Opportunity - Software Engineer
You will help build new features and update existing ones in our cloud accounting application. We are proud to build a product that helps our customers earn their living. If you’re committed to great work and are constantly looking for ways to improve the systems you’re responsible for, we’d love to chat with you!
NOTE: This role can be worked remotely from the above location.
What You'll Do as a Software Engineer:
- Build real-world applications that have a meaningful impact on customers
- Make sound decisions even in the absence of complete information, and recognize when to over-engineer and when not to
- Design and develop application technologies that optimize solution operation and minimize maintenance overhead
- Collaborate with full-stack and mobile developers on cross-functional agile teams working on features for our customers
- Work closely with UX designers and Product owners to ensure the best web experience for our customers
- Contribute to a large codebase that contains a multitude of customer features
- Participate and share your ideas in technical design and architecture discussions
- Ship your code with our continuous integration process
- Develop your craft and build your expertise in full-stack web development
What You'll Bring to the Role
- 2+ years of experience in web application development
- Experience writing and working with REST APIs
- Experience in Python (our core back-end technologies)
- Experience working with JavaScript frameworks such as Ember.js, ReactJS
- Experience with MySQL or other relational databases
- Experience writing code with unit tests for great code coverage
- Experience working with large codebases and writing robust and testable code
- Familiarity with continuous integration and automated build pipelines
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, or other similar tools
- Experience using github, reviewing code, reviewing PRs, and merging branches
You'll Stand Out If You Bring Experience In
- Experience working in Scrum or Agile environment
- Experience with cloud architecture and design patterns
- Familiarity with continuous integration (or better, continuous delivery) and automated build pipelines
- Experience with some of the following technologies: Redis and ElasticSearch, Flask, FastAPI, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, Celery, Docker, and GCP
At FreshBooks, every team member knows their voice is heard and their contributions matter, making a difference in the lives of millions of small business owners and accountants worldwide. Grow your career, work on projects that excite you, and thrive in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Perks & Benefits
- 🩺 Comprehensive health and wellness benefits. Including a retirement savings program or pension plan matched to your local office, stock options for every full-time employee, generous time off, parental leave and new parent support, annual healthy living credit, comprehensive medical and dental benefits, fertility and gender-affirming benefits dependent on your region, and more.
- 📚 Perks that matter. Including a Peer Recognition Program, an Employee Assistance Program, headphone credit, meaningful in-person gatherings to bring onsite and remote employees together, and more perks matched to your local cluster.
- 🌱 Working environments to help you thrive. Beautiful office spaces welcome you in Toronto, Amsterdam, and San Luis Potosi. If you don't have access to a FreshBooks office, you receive a home office credit to set up your home office. We are committed to creating supportive and flexible environments to support the best interests of the team, collaboration, and mental well-being.
- 🤗 Supportive peer group, mentors, and leaders. We care about each other across the organization and have programs to support this so everyone feels a strong sense of belonging, and believes in collective impact.
- 🚀 Accelerated growth. Comprehensive company onboarding, career development through continuous coaching, training, and learning on the job.
Closing
Even if your experience doesn't meet every bullet on the above lists, we'd love to learn more about you and why you think FreshBooks is the next step in your career.
FreshBooks is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, religion, race, mental disability, sexual orientation, age, or any other status. All applicants are considered based on their qualifications and merits. At FreshBooks, we inspire an environment of mutual respect and we believe diversity and inclusion are crucial to our success.
FreshBooks provides employment accommodation during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please indicate this on your application and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions, suggestions or required documents regarding accessibility in a different format, please contact us by phone at 1-416-780-2700 and/or email at accessibility@freshbooks.com.
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